Timeline for What are the drawbacks of the US making tactical first use of nuclear weapons against terrorist sites?
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| Oct 7, 2016 at 13:13 | comment | added | pjc50 | Possibly (nuclear Tomahawk cruise?), but the explosion itself is detectable globally. It also means "no first strike" goes out the window; what happens if Russia now decides it wants to deploy nukes against its own "terrorists" and that gets detected as a MAD launch? etc. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 13:04 | comment | added | Geobits | While MAD is still a possible outcome, I think the OP is talking about smaller, tactical nukes rather than detectable-while-still-in-flight ICBMs. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 12:59 | history | answered | pjc50 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |